I recall waay back on Feb 01 when Dan Papasian wrote: > Is there a Debian package for every last program? No, there is your > base deb which contains several. Your complaint is that FreeBSD's base > OS is too big. That is debated constantly.
Ermm... small correction. There _is_ a Debian package for every last program, but some of them are included in the base install, and that is where the dpkg database starts -- with the base packages installed. You can later remove/replace these with different versions. -- Lemmings don't grow older, they just die.
